Outriders

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5.7

Mixed or average reviews- based on 471 Ratings

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  1. Hanroen
    Jun 14, 2023
    0
    It's hard to believe, but there are still bugs that prevent the game from being played. These bugs prevent you from shooting and make the ability unusable. After a while, I closed the game in anger and deleted it.
  2. tdebug
    Oct 30, 2022
    0
    World dumbest shooter. It is such a primitive, idea free point and shoot game that I applaud standing to the developer and the publisher who managed to sell that for real money. This is literally they must play you to waste your time with this.
  3. AudioRemedy
    Sep 5, 2022
    0
    Think Destiny, but extremely low budget. Even with a friend to play with, it was too boring and repetitive to finish. Thankfully, I didn't spend any money on this crap.
  4. Sinatra
    Mar 15, 2022
    2
    We bought this game to play it in COOP. The game itself is quite good and a lot of fun. Actually it is better then I expected.
    But I have one big problem with this game and the Dev´s. It is an always online game, but should be called a "maybe sometimes able to play" game. So, you make a game, that is not playable (not even in single player) if not connected to the servers. Now, the server    We bought this game to play it in COOP. The game itself is quite good and a lot of fun. Actually it is better then I expected.
    But I have one big problem with this game and the Dev´s. It is an always online game, but should be called a "maybe sometimes able to play" game. So, you make a game, that is not playable (not even in single player) if not connected to the servers. Now, the server did not work since the release. Now one year later, they are still not working. A week ago we played 1 mission 5 times in 40 minutes, because the server connection was gone 4 times !!! I tried playing single player with the same result. So, after one year there is still no patch, that would allow you to play offline, nor have the server issues been fixed. Honestly, can it be any clearer that the Dev´s just don´t care.... yeah, no more games from people can fly for me. What a disgrace!    … Expand
  5. IamAlwaysSleepy
    Feb 5, 2022
    0
    It is bad, unbalanced and broken game. Even after all this time from release, it breaks, it breaks pc - why blue screen? Really? Connection are unstable. Mechanics are dumb, for example you cant pass, push, roll through enemies, how many times there were death, because just one prefectly placed enemy kept you stuck in corner. Blocades are useless! And more to this, your character keepIt is bad, unbalanced and broken game. Even after all this time from release, it breaks, it breaks pc - why blue screen? Really? Connection are unstable. Mechanics are dumb, for example you cant pass, push, roll through enemies, how many times there were death, because just one prefectly placed enemy kept you stuck in corner. Blocades are useless! And more to this, your character keep getting sticky to them. And who had idea of adding like 80% of mobs having melee, with speed greater than yours, or gap closers with damage 70% of your hp - 2 in a row - you dead, really? It is shooter. Can I get to shoot ffs???… Expand
  6. laethros95
    Jan 16, 2022
    0
    the graphics are great the story is good and the character is feels alive everything about the game perfect but only one thing is make this game unplayable and that is a huge bug! I cant hear any bullet or enemy sounds. I try to reopen the game again n again but the bug is still there so i deleted it. never sell a unfinished game
  7. CyberBob13
    Dec 5, 2021
    0
    This is a massive WOKE TROJAN HORSE. The game is supposed to be a space / sci-fi loot / shooter but in reality it's just ... surprise! .. .more woke nonsense from the gaming industry. The story is about how the big, bad, mean, war-mongering, white man invades a planet full of peaceful, transgender, indigenous people to enslave them. Of course they left Earth because of global warming.This is a massive WOKE TROJAN HORSE. The game is supposed to be a space / sci-fi loot / shooter but in reality it's just ... surprise! .. .more woke nonsense from the gaming industry. The story is about how the big, bad, mean, war-mongering, white man invades a planet full of peaceful, transgender, indigenous people to enslave them. Of course they left Earth because of global warming. You can't make this crap up. Save your money.… Expand
  8. Ferawyn
    Nov 29, 2021
    2
    A pathetic attempt at another Destiny clone, with gameplay that feels like an XBOX port from 15 years ago.
    The game starts off by showing you 5 minutes of cutscenes for every 5 seconds of gameplay, pushing you through a moronic tutorial, just in case you forgot left-click means shoot. Movement is stiff. Shooting is weak. Brain-dead cover mechanics with regenerating health. Honestly, is it    A pathetic attempt at another Destiny clone, with gameplay that feels like an XBOX port from 15 years ago.
    The game starts off by showing you 5 minutes of cutscenes for every 5 seconds of gameplay, pushing you through a moronic tutorial, just in case you forgot left-click means shoot. Movement is stiff. Shooting is weak. Brain-dead cover mechanics with regenerating health. Honestly, is it 2005 again?
    And then you're expected to pick a 'class' without any idea of what they do, or ability to try them out.
    Why would anyone pay money for this?
    The graphics are ok, I guess. And unlike many others, my game never crashed.
    Worthless.    … Expand
  9. GabiUp2
    Nov 27, 2021
    0
    This game does not work. For the last two weeks, I've been stuck in one fight because the game loses connection to the servers and due to checkpoint saving I have to repeat the whole zone again and again and again (14 times atm). It did that on another occasion as well but then it was not as painful as I was able to get to another checkpoint time. Srsly, don't buy it on PC. It's anotherThis game does not work. For the last two weeks, I've been stuck in one fight because the game loses connection to the servers and due to checkpoint saving I have to repeat the whole zone again and again and again (14 times atm). It did that on another occasion as well but then it was not as painful as I was able to get to another checkpoint time. Srsly, don't buy it on PC. It's another one when devs thought "F**k it - we will repair it in the future."… Expand
  10. sonicfirecmk
    Nov 22, 2021
    0
    decent price, a lot of the bugs have been fixed. not AAA quality but a great game to play non the less. i dont know why there are so many 0's might be due to a poor launch? but the game rocks now :D
  11. iambatkam
    Nov 7, 2021
    0
    The gameplay and mechanics are sort of a Mass Effect-Gears of War-The Division mashup, and it works for the most part. Decent gun variety, satisfying and interesting mods, and an interesting mutation system. The classes are a bit locked and you can only have three abilities chosen at a time (with no pause to change in a fight if you realize you went with the wrong combo).
    The dialog is    The gameplay and mechanics are sort of a Mass Effect-Gears of War-The Division mashup, and it works for the most part. Decent gun variety, satisfying and interesting mods, and an interesting mutation system. The classes are a bit locked and you can only have three abilities chosen at a time (with no pause to change in a fight if you realize you went with the wrong combo).
    The dialog is pretty bad with only a couple of the characters even having anything remotely close to decent personalities. It seems everyone is massively bi-polar, and the voice acting is "meh" at best. The player character is probably the best voiced in the whole game and has the most stable personality when dealing with situations.
    The story is just atrocious. The first 15 minutes of the game reels you in with a decent story and ok characters, then goes downhill like an Olympic skier. The world ends and only the best of the best of humanity are saved. But when things get a little tough, the supposed best of the best turn into blood thirsty animals who kill each other for no reason with. It was obvious that the writers never even thought of talking to a veteran, as every NPC's excuse for executing surrendering soldiers, or in one case an enemy soldier who saved the NPC's life (who in turn executes him), is "This is what war is", which it most definitely is not. NPC's will die when it makes no sense for them to die; one scene everyone is screaming and pointing guns at each other, then the main bad guy of the event shoots the one guy with a holstered weapon trying to diffuse the situation and literally asking for everyone to just calm down and talk, not the girl screaming in his face, not the soldiers pointing guns at each other, but the guy staying calm trying to talk it out. Then there is both sides trying to get you to fight for them talking about how everyone is almost out of ammunition and supplies, but there is always bullets flying everywhere, massive explosions, and just spray-and-pray mentalities.
    If you ignore the story and can get through the terribly made cut scenes (like a cameraman who never heard of a gimble or stabilization technology is having a seizure while he films), the game can be pretty fun.    … Expand
  12. celveor
    Nov 4, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. By far the worst level design I have ever seen. For example, clever boss design is replaced by being mowed down by hordes of enemies on tiny battlefields.
    A great game in itself, but this can take all the joy out of it.    … Expand
  13. somedevsaregood
    Oct 25, 2021
    0
    We all deserve refund on this game. There is no offline play for potential modding in the future. The game is way over priced and its not a AAA cause game devs with smaller budgets did way better then the 6 hour game call outriders. This game become redunded after you beat the game in 6 hours.
    Loot nope it sucks as well. Borderlands 1 did better then that in like 2008. This game is as bad    We all deserve refund on this game. There is no offline play for potential modding in the future. The game is way over priced and its not a AAA cause game devs with smaller budgets did way better then the 6 hour game call outriders. This game become redunded after you beat the game in 6 hours.
    Loot nope it sucks as well. Borderlands 1 did better then that in like 2008. This game is as bad as Anthem and the online is what kept people from playing any longer. Now lets get too disecting the online experince its a p2p or commonly known as peer 2 peer witch uses the same style of connecting like a bit torrent witch is shared between one another like pirating. They kick people out of a end game content run so they get more loot and there is only 3 people.
    Also all your loot is saved on there sever so nothing you gain from this game is truly yours and they purposly did wipes of peoples gear. Understand the loot that is saved is no bigger then 10 megabytes in size and most people playing this game has 5 terabytes witch could save that data and they could have 20 more games with full of saved data.
    They also say this game is singleplayer well its not enjoyable when you hit lag spikes playing alone.
    I think you all get what im saying this game is far worser then cyberpunk 2077 like beyond far worse.    … Expand
  14. Slownlazy
    Jul 18, 2021
    0
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  15. monkeydude40
    Jul 1, 2021
    3
    Close, but no Cigar. My biggest problem with Outriders is Bulletstorm. If you where shown several games side by side with Outriders and asked to pick which one was made by the same team you would never pick Bulletstorm in a million years. I mean, its okayish, but you can clearly see that it is in some sort of awkward middle ground between Destiny 2 and Gears of War. It feels like they wereClose, but no Cigar. My biggest problem with Outriders is Bulletstorm. If you where shown several games side by side with Outriders and asked to pick which one was made by the same team you would never pick Bulletstorm in a million years. I mean, its okayish, but you can clearly see that it is in some sort of awkward middle ground between Destiny 2 and Gears of War. It feels like they were going for a Persistent Online Looter shooter, remembered the fate of Anthem and changed gears half way through.

    That aside the controls for the Camera and ADS just feel slightly `wrong` even after messing about with turning Aim Assist and camera sensitivity there is just this almost indefinable sense that you aren't quite doing what you want. I started the game and chose the Trickster who is supposed to be a close range fighter who relies on interrupts but getting into a pack of enemies and trying to use the blade attack was quite literally hit or miss as I found myself accidentally being slightly off at a 45 degree angle. Changing to a Pyromancer made my previous attempts moot as it made the enemies laughably ineffective.

    In conclusion there is really nothing that jumps out and makes you think `wow`. The cover system is broken (enemies seem to have infinite grenades that can target you with pin point accuracy), the story is meh and I couldn't care less about the story line.    … Expand
  16. transposestudio
    Jun 26, 2021
    0
    I've put approx. 200 hours into this mess of a game. While I can forgive some bugs the overall scope and range at release and all the way into months later are too much. PCF has spent more time ruining the classes (NERFS) than fixing things which says a lot. Going from playable to one-shot in the blink of an eye is pretty standard in this "game". PCF has ruined their reputation with thisI've put approx. 200 hours into this mess of a game. While I can forgive some bugs the overall scope and range at release and all the way into months later are too much. PCF has spent more time ruining the classes (NERFS) than fixing things which says a lot. Going from playable to one-shot in the blink of an eye is pretty standard in this "game". PCF has ruined their reputation with this garbage game and it's pretty clear this was just a cash grab. Avoid this game at all costs!… Expand
  17. urieaal
    May 27, 2021
    2
    The controls are terrible. they need a lot of fine tuning.

    Sound issues, every other character that speaks was bogging down or caching for some reason. Too many characters speaking at once in the main starting area, often causing dialog to over lap and get jumbled. the story takes away from any personal connection to other characters right away. so personally i just wasn't interested    The controls are terrible. they need a lot of fine tuning.

    Sound issues, every other character that speaks was bogging down or caching for some reason. Too many characters speaking at once in the main starting area, often causing dialog to over lap and get jumbled.

    the story takes away from any personal connection to other characters right away. so personally i just wasn't interested with the story at all.

    camera was giving me motion sickness, it bounces around a lot and has tendency to be in the wrong spot.
    Just seems like a **** game to me. like they are trying to cash in on the destiny/division market only they just did it really ****.    … Expand
  18. foojee
    May 22, 2021
    3
    absolutely a bastard game in technical terms. it's been 2 months since the release, but it constantly crashes and crashes 3-4 times in a couple of hours, or just disappears from the servers. this is especially "pleasing" during the passage of the expeditions. to the developers of "BRAVO".
  19. Rimsie
    May 15, 2021
    3
    Enjoyable at first but quickly becomes reptitive. Every encounter is the same - obviously placed cover with some grunts followed shortly by the boss. Game ranks up your gear just as you need it. Its linear, not open world, in case you're wondering. Dead world, nothing to do but go to the objective and repeat the formula. Really tried to enjoy it but there are no excuses for something soEnjoyable at first but quickly becomes reptitive. Every encounter is the same - obviously placed cover with some grunts followed shortly by the boss. Game ranks up your gear just as you need it. Its linear, not open world, in case you're wondering. Dead world, nothing to do but go to the objective and repeat the formula. Really tried to enjoy it but there are no excuses for something so plain. I would be embarassed as a designer. Combat is fairly fun though.… Expand
  20. Grimsworth
    May 14, 2021
    0
    Decent game ruined by absolutely incompetent developers. Massive amount of bugs from inventory wipes, heavy stuttering, inability to sign into the always online game, gear/mods/skill trees failing to work at random on top of a horrible multiplayer experience plagued by heavy lag, rubberbanding and failure for skills/shots to register. The console controls are also abhorrent, with terribleDecent game ruined by absolutely incompetent developers. Massive amount of bugs from inventory wipes, heavy stuttering, inability to sign into the always online game, gear/mods/skill trees failing to work at random on top of a horrible multiplayer experience plagued by heavy lag, rubberbanding and failure for skills/shots to register. The console controls are also abhorrent, with terrible aim acceleration and awful auto aim snap. Currently the game has been out for a month and a half and the only issue I listed that has been remedied is the inventory wipe, what was listed is also far from the full list of bugs. Updates are also slow and have introduced new significant bugs every patch.

    This game may end up worth playing if they can iron out all the laughably bad bugs and you can get it on sale for $20-30 or less.    … Expand
  21. huszarka
    May 8, 2021
    1
    More than 1 month after release, it quits because of ,,Outriders server problem". And you cannot play NOW (when I write this, 2021.05.08!) Oh, and I play it in single player mode, alone. So I cannot get it. But never buy this crap..
  22. dredgman
    May 6, 2021
    4
    Technical issues notwithstanding, Outriders is simply boring. The loot system and perk system seem intriguing and well-designed, but there's little reason to explore them to their full potential. The handful of enemy types behave similarly, and every combat encounter starts to run together. The world is visually interesting at times, but running from encounter to encounter to eliminateTechnical issues notwithstanding, Outriders is simply boring. The loot system and perk system seem intriguing and well-designed, but there's little reason to explore them to their full potential. The handful of enemy types behave similarly, and every combat encounter starts to run together. The world is visually interesting at times, but running from encounter to encounter to eliminate predictable mobs is not.

    Outriders also struggles to hit an enjoyable difficulty level. On paper, the world-tier system seems appealing: difficulty can be adjusted on the fly, with more difficult enemies providing better loot and better drop rates. However, it feels discouraging when you a reach point where enemies can destroy even the "tank" class in one or two hits. So if you decrease the difficulty, congratulations, you can stomp the enemies to experience a bland story, but you reach a point where to experience the end-game content, you must play at the highest world tiers to obtain the highest-level loot.

    There's also no self-revive in single-player despite having one per encounter when playing co-op, which can lead to frustration. Encounters pretty much all come down to one or two remaining elite enemies at the end that soak up an inordinate amount of damage while doing nothing interesting.    … Expand
  23. k2natural
    May 4, 2021
    0
    Buggy and broken. Every time the developer releases a patch to "fix" one of many game-breaking bugs, they introduce 5 more game-breaking bugs. People Can Fly clearly have no idea what they are doing. Thought Cyberpunk 2077 was bad? This is worse. You are better of spending your time and money on ANYTHING else.
  24. Lucyferer
    May 3, 2021
    0
    + World
    + FPS feeling
    + Crafting -- -Buged as goat simulator -enemies skills shots across walls -few languages lack of icons on skill tree, so you never know which skills is affected by icon -sometimes your character have reversed gender voice -bad optimization. do u have RTX3080? wants 144FPS? nah, dream about this. -scamed. ordered pre-order and support can't help me with    + World
    + FPS feeling
    + Crafting

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    -Buged as goat simulator
    -enemies skills shots across walls
    -few languages lack of icons on skill tree, so you never know which skills is affected by icon
    -sometimes your character have reversed gender voice
    -bad optimization. do u have RTX3080? wants 144FPS? nah, dream about this.
    -scamed. ordered pre-order and support can't help me with bug. i do not received my pre-order bonus.
    -random crashes,    … Expand
  25. Thornzz
    Apr 9, 2021
    1
    The demo was very promising. With one of the worst launches in history for a game that is not a game as a service. with massive service issues disconnect the game is virtually unplayable, at least to be able to get any enjoyment out of it. Then the propriety of the devs is to take what fun there is in the game out before they fix the connectivity issues and coop issues. This game is a hotThe demo was very promising. With one of the worst launches in history for a game that is not a game as a service. with massive service issues disconnect the game is virtually unplayable, at least to be able to get any enjoyment out of it. Then the propriety of the devs is to take what fun there is in the game out before they fix the connectivity issues and coop issues. This game is a hot pile of garbage and would be a decent purchase at under $10 from a bargin bin.… Expand
  26. k_san999
    Apr 28, 2021
    1
    This game is a **** **** **** game. Worst game i have ever played. **** off
  27. r4v3n999
    Apr 28, 2021
    3
    Very very bad online game inplayeble more bug end not patch for resolve not buy
  28. SetDaRekordStr8
    Apr 23, 2021
    4
    Can't believe I wasted my money on this blatant money grab, shell of a game.
  29. Chund3r
    Apr 20, 2021
    0
    Weeks later, still a good game if you like paying $60 to be a beta tester. The issues with servers being down for hours only for them to come back up for 15 mins before they go back down is largely fixed. When there aren't server issues you have microstutters, framerate issues, audio going out or uncentered from you, blurry graphics and crashing. And after weeks of issues they wipe yourWeeks later, still a good game if you like paying $60 to be a beta tester. The issues with servers being down for hours only for them to come back up for 15 mins before they go back down is largely fixed. When there aren't server issues you have microstutters, framerate issues, audio going out or uncentered from you, blurry graphics and crashing. And after weeks of issues they wipe your character along with thousands of other players and only tell you for almost 2 weeks now "we'll fix and restore your character SOON" with no detailed information.

    The enemy AI is all the same just reskinned, pretty brainless and just mindlessly runs at you in mobs and the ranged characters hit you even when not facing you, warping into you, etc. The infantry are the smartest but they just take cover behind objects everyone else is just bullet sponges.

    Campaign can be beat in under 5 hours w/ your character reaching max level and world tier as well. The maps are boring with you running down different looking corridors until you reach a bubble with cover that's one of a handful of boss fights per level, no open world at all.

    End game? Have fun playing the same 14 maps over and over running down the same corridors hoping for a random legendary drop, but you only get the same 7 out of 150 some. Oh and forget about playing coop, the scaling is beyond broken. Your end game build can 1 shot enemies and clear expeditions quickly. Add a 2nd person and your damage and health stays the same but enemies are more than double health and double damage. A 3rd? More than 4x health and damage while your characters are the same. Also, if you're not the host (players connect to each other in instances to play, and then connect to the Outriders data server) you'll experience bad hit reg, skills not triggering but going on cooldown, warping around map and getting stuck in walls, shooting enemies do no damage, etc.

    TLDR, game isn't even worth spending $20 on. Stay far away    … Expand
  30. IAMSALLGOLD
    Apr 17, 2021
    0
    None stop crashing, hud not working, loot disappeared multiple times and frozen screen central. its so broken it's unplayable.
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 32 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 32
  3. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. CD-Action
    Nov 19, 2021
    75
    Outriders guarantees an enjoyable evening with friends. We had lots of fun clearing out stage after stage, gathering loot, upgrading our gear and improving our builds so they complement each other perfectly. The final score would have been higher if it weren’t for tons of technical issues we had to deal with. [06/2021, p.28]
  2. Riot Pixels
    Jun 9, 2021
    72
    Killing everything that moves with bullets and magic while enjoying picturesque alien vistas is good enough for 20 hours (30, if you’re into Expeditions), but don’t expect anything more substantial out of Outriders.
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  3. Cubed3
    May 7, 2021
    50
    Gears of War meets Destiny… and the end result is mediocre. Take away the "coolness" of playing a gun totting superhero, and all you are left with is basically one more generic looter shooter, that doesn't manage to impress, neither with its repetitive gameplay, nor with its boring story and world building. Add to that a couple of technical and network issues, and you are in for a - pricey - treat.
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